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z=1.6的星团星系的观测和模拟:链星系起源和演化的光谱线索

Observations and modelling of a clumpy galaxy at z=1.6: Spectroscopic clues to the origin and evolution of chain galaxies

F. Bournaud, E. Daddi, B. G. Elmegreen, D. M. Elmegreen, N. Nesvadba, E. Vanzella, P. Di Matteo, L. Le Tiran, M. Lehnert, D. Elbaz

摘要:

我们研究了红移为1.57的团簇星系的性质。在光学观测中,这个星系的形态主要是由8个恒星形成的团块所控制,并具有大多数团块星系和链星系的典型光度特性。它复杂的不对称形态使人们认为这个系统是几个最初分离的原星系的合并。我们在VLT UT 4上用SINFONI对该系统进行了H_α积分场谱分析。这些观测结果揭示了整个系统的大尺度速度梯度,但具有大的局部运动学扰动。利用一个富气盘碎裂的数值模型,我们发现,团块的相互作用和迁移可以解释所观察到的扰动旋转。另一方面,对于多重合并系统,不期望全局旋转。我们进一步发现,该系统遵循恒星质量与金属丰度,恒星形成率和大小的关系,预期在这个红移的磁盘,并表现出类似磁盘的径向金属丰度梯度,使内部磁盘碎片的情况是最有可能的。在这个原螺旋星云中,一个红色的金属中心集中区似乎是一个凸起。在同一视场中,一个红移为2.07的链状星系也显示出类似圆盘的旋转。这样的系统很可能是现在明亮的螺旋星系的祖先,通过团块迁移和分裂形成指数盘,并为它们的膨胀提供燃料。我们目前的研究结果表明,扰动的形态和运动学并不一定是星系合并和相互作用的标志,而可能是原始盘内部演化的结果。

英文摘要:

We investigate the properties of a clump-cluster galaxy at redshift 1.57. The morphology of this galaxy is dominated by eight star-forming clumps in optical observations, and has photometric properties typical of most clump-cluster and chain galaxies. Its complex asymmetrical morphology has led to the suggestion that this system is a group merger of several initially separate proto-galaxies. We performed H_alpha integral field spectroscopy of this system using SINFONI on VLT UT4. These observations reveal a large-scale velocity gradient throughout the system, but with large local kinematic disturbances. Using a numerical model of gas-rich disk fragmentation, we find that clump interactions and migration can account for the observed disturbed rotation. On the other hand, the global rotation would not be expected for a multiply merging system. We further find that this system follows the stellar mass vs. metallicity, star formation rate and size relations expected for a disk at this redshift, and exhibits a disk-like radial metallicity gradient, so that the scenario of internal disk fragmentation is the most likely one. A red and metallic central concentration appears to be a bulge in this proto-spiral clumpy galaxy. A chain galaxy at redshift 2.07 in the same field also shows disk-like rotation. Such systems are likely progenitors of the present-day bright spiral galaxies, forming their exponential disks through clump migration and disruption and fueling their bulges. Our present results show that disturbed morphologies and kinematics are not necessarily signs of galaxy mergers and interactions, and can instead result from the internal evolution of primordial disks.

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